Business - Is - Business
For many of us, including myself, who are in business relationships with “previous friends” (meaning you were more than an associate of the person previous to the business) and business relationships with family, there is a great need for seperation between the personal side and the business side of things.
This could not be more evident for myself considering the fact that I am in the middle of a business relationship that has the potential to go bust in the very near future because of the fact the other party does not share the same value for our business as I do and he previously did. In this day and age you need to stay mobile and always give yourself an out as I do. Not that I do not trust people, but people change and most of the time you cannot force someone into changing into how you would like them be. Instead if the relationship is to the point where it is no longer productive to the business or to one or both of the parties there comes a point to which you need to figure out if it is worth it anymore. On the same note, a partnership split can sometimes be a great opprotunity to rebound and take your business to the next level.
Conflicting Goals
A genuine, true busienss relationship should have different goals than a personal relationship. Not that the two will not work well togethor but more so that they should be held seperately from eachotheras not to harm the business relationship.
For myself, I value the effort and enthusiasm a person has for something, in most cases, above their personal knowledge. Because afterall, it does not matter how much you know, it really matters what attitude you have towards getting something done.
To The Point…
This is really where you have to remember that in a business relationship, whether it include personal implications also, business should be business - for the good of the business. You cannot let a person drag yourself down to the breaking point, and just like my previous article, you need to know what that breaking point is.
So I leave you with this tid-bit of advice, remember to always seperate your personal relations from your business relations from someone as they both have very conflicting goals.